About a quarter of Americans say they see President Donald Trump somewhat or strongly as a “man of faith.”

According to the Politico-Morning Consult poll, 55 percent of respondents said they somewhat or strongly disagree that the president is a “man of faith.”

“Even after nearly 3 in 4 voters saw coverage of President Trump’s photo-op at St. John’s Episcopal Church last week, only about 1 in 4 believe he’s religious,” Morning Consult Vice President Tyler Sinclair said, according to Politico.

Sinclair was referring to a photo Trump took with a bible in front of St. John’s Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C.

Officials reportedly removed peaceful protestors from the area so Trump could take the photo.

Trump has recently faced an onslaught of criticism and a loss of support from Christians. His approval ratings have dipped overall because of his response to the coronavirus pandemic and his response to nationwide protests following the killing of George Floyd.

On Twitter this week, Trump said a 75-year-old man who was hospitalized after being knocked down by police during a protest may have been an “antifa provocateur.”

The man, Martin Gugino, is a pacifist member of the Catholic Worker Movement.

In an interview with former White House press secretary Sean Spicer last week, Trump was asked about how much he’s grown in faith since taking office. His response drew 

A leading online evangelism ministry reached a major milestone in May by delivering its 2 billionth gospel presentation, some 15 years after it was founded by one of the original employees of Apple.

Global Ministry Outreach, which celebrated its 2 billionth online gospel presentation on May 19, reaches the world’s lost population through search engines and social media by targeting keywords and directing people to a website catering to their needs. 

It was founded in 2005 by Walt Wilson, who worked under Steve Jobs in the early days of Apple. 

The ministry operates more than 100 websites in 13 languages. It also has 3,500 volunteer online missionaries in 110 countries who contact individuals who make decisions for Christ. 

Since its founding, more than 230 million people have indicated they became a Christian through the ministry.  

“We reach people at their point of need, all over the world with the gospel,” John Thompson, director of marketing for Global Ministry Outreach, told Christian Headlines. “When an individual goes online and searches for, ‘How do I know God?’ [or] ‘How do I find peace?’ … they will run across one of our ads or a link, and it will link them to one of our websites in that particular language that they are searching for.” 

More than 60 percent of the ministry’s activity takes place outside the United States. About two-thirds of its budget…

NEW DELHI, June 11, 2020 (Morning Star News) – Incited by Hindu extremists, followers of traditional tribal religion in eastern India last week stabbed and stoned a 16-year-old Christian boy to death for his faith, sources said.

The mutilated body of Sambaru Madkami was found on Friday (June 5) buried in the jungle of Malkangiri, about six kilometers (less than 4 miles) from his village of Kenduguda, Malkangiri District, Odisha state. The village animists had seized him on Thursday night (June 4) after deciding to kill the male heads of the three Christian families in the village, area sources said.

“They had come for me,” Sambaru’s father, Unga Madkami, told Morning Star News, “but I was not at home. I had taken my daughter who was sick to the doctor.”

Living at home instead of the hostel of his school in Bhejaguda because of a COVID-19 lockdown, Sambaru had been leading daily meetings of a house church whose founding pastor, living in another town, dared to appear only twice a month due to villagers’ growing opposition. The only three Christian families in the village of 210 families met at Sambaru’s house.

“Sambaru knew the Word of God the most from among us,” his cousin told Morning Star News. “So he was the one who led us in a time of prayer and learning from the Bible every day in his house.”

Abduction

Some seven to 10 villagers came to his family’s…

A federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld a Missouri law that requires abortion clinics give every woman a booklet stating that life “begins at conception.”

The unique case involves a female member of “The Satanic Temple” who became pregnant and then sued the state, asserting the law violates her religious beliefs and also violates the Establishment and Free Exercise Clauses of the First Amendment.

The woman was called “Judy Doe” in court documents.

The law requires abortion clinics give women a booklet stating: “The life of each human being begins at conception. Abortion will terminate the life of a separate, unique, living human being.” Women are not required to read the booklet, which also includes illustrations showing the development of an unborn baby every two weeks.

Doe believes the “‘Human Tissue’ that she was carrying was ‘part of her body,’” the judges noted.

“As she stated in her complaint, her ‘body is inviolable’ and ‘[s]he alone’ gets to decide what to do with it, regardless of ‘the current or future condition of the Human Tissue’ within,” Judge David R. Stras wrote.

The court, in a 3-0 decision, ruled the Missouri law does not violate the U.S. Constitution.

A state, Stras said in the opinion, “does not establish religion by passing a law that just ‘happens to…

George Floyd’s brother, Philonise, testified before Congress on Wednesday to petition lawmakers to make sweeping changes to prevent police brutality.

“I’m here today to ask you to make it stop. Stop the pain,” he said, according to AP News. He hoped that his brother is “more than another face on a T-shirt, more than another name on a list that won’t stop growing.”

Congress gathered to review the Democrats’ proposed bill on police reform. The Republicans, led by Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), are working to create their own bill.

“I think the best way for the Senate Republicans to go forward on this is to listen to one of our own, who’s had these experiences—he’s had them since he’s been in the United States Senate,” said Mitch McConnell, as reported by CBN News.

Scott will be meeting with President Trump to discuss his bill, which would require states receiving federal funding to report officer-related shootings.

The Democrats’ bill hopes to ban chokeholds, as well as racially and religious profiling. It would also allow the federal government easier ability to prosecute misconduct police cases and create a database of police misconduct.

In his testimony, Philonise urged Congress that reform is long overdue.

“George wasn’t hurting anyone that day,” he said. “He didn’t deserve to die over $20. I am asking you, is that what a black man is worth? $20?…

Acts of persecution are on the rise in India, as evidenced by several acts of violence and exclusion carried out against the Christian community. 

According to Open Doors USA, ADF India said that six acts of violence against Christians took place in April, even as the nation was locked down due to COVID-19.

According to CBN News, several of the incidents involved Christians being forced to attend village meetings where they declined to take part in Hindu rituals. They said that they would not take part because it would violate their conscience. As word of their non-participation spread, large mobs attacked them.

ADF India also reported that there were three incidents in which Christians were not allowed to bury deceased relatives in the village cemetery. They were told that since they did not participate in the village rituals, they would have to pay restitution and a fine before they could bury their dead.

ADF India took the case to police. The police protected the funerals from attacks and in a couple of cases provided the land for the burial. Christian leaders reported that they plan to petition the government for protection from these acts of “social exclusion and physical violence.”

India’s current government came to power in 2014 and attacks from Hindu radicals against Christians have increased significantly since then. Open Doors USA has India ranked 10^th on their World Watch…

Allahu Akbar became a near-constant sound in the prison cell. It’s part of the Muslim call to prayer, and each man repeated it incessantly over the course of the day, one hundred times each time they prayed. Confined in the tiny room, I watched my cellmates bow and listen to the words from the Koran. In the midst of all the murmuring voices and repetitious prayers, I started to worry about my mental health and felt a strong need for something besides their voices to occupy my mind.

In the final days of January, as my Muslim cellmates were praying, the Lord began to give me songs. Watching the Muslims bow their faces to the ground triggered the memory of a hymn that my father taught me when I was a little child: “Every Knee Shall Bow.”

During our underground church discipleship meetings in Czechoslovakia, we sang the hymn spontaneously and often, and in my prison cell, those same words began to rush into my mind. As the Muslims prayed, I sang the song in my mind, over and over, and it helped me to exalt the name of my Lord. Five times each day, as I stood near the bathroom of the cell to face the toilet, I remembered the refrain: “Every knee shall bow, every tongue confess that You

are the Lord.” By reminding myself that one day, every person’s knees will bow before my Lord, I began to internalize the eternal reality of my…